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BettyLou
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(5/25/01 4:52:29
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A poll!! Turning
a new leaf!!
What's your favorite Bach Suite? And which is your favorite menuet,
sarabande, gavotte, whatever? I love the Prelude to the Suite No. 1,
it's so yummy no matter how many times I play/hear it.
I am
dying to know what everybody thinks!!!
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Paul
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(5/25/01 5:09:28 pm)
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Re: A poll!!
Turning a new leaf!!
Hi Betty Lou,
Let me see, there's so much space here in this
HUGE head of mine, I'll have to take a moment to find my thoughts! 
Seriously, though:
I think the Prelude to the 3rd
suite is glorious. What better key on the cello to resonate than C
major?
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BettyLou
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(5/25/01 5:19:55
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Thank you
Paul!
Dear sweet, Julliard-trained, God loving, accomplished, new father,
cello SOLOIST Paul,
You take ribbing quite well young man!
Good for you!
Yes, I actually played that Prelude last night,
it IS glorious!!
Gotta run, Oprah is solving many world
problems!!
with prayers for the Isrealites who perished
in that wedding hall collapse,
BettyLou
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playingfavorites
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(5/25/01 9:52:02 pm)
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sarabandes
are my favorites currently (maybe it is the gentle rain we've had
so much here lately) . . . d minor is so searching, so sublimating.
But hey, hopefully you live long enough and play long enough to
cycle through different moods and different favorites . . .
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Rich
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(5/25/01 11:48:53 pm)
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Re: A poll!!
Turning a new leaf!!
My favorite is the 4th Suite. I never get tired of playing the
Sarabande. It's one of those pieces you perform just for yourself.
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BA
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(5/26/01 12:28:13
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6th
Though I really prefer my Bach on the keyboard the 6th suite is
growing on me. Just wish it weren't so ^&*(^&*^ hard!
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Gablety
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(5/27/01 2:16:16
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WOW!!!!
I thought that your origional question was interesting because
previously everyone asks and answers which is their fav *suite*, not
their fav movement. Some of those conversations were quite boring,
because people didn't really say why, they just said
which.
Now, all I know about the Bach suites is my Yo-Yo
"Inspired by Bach" recording; I don't have any other recordings of
it, I haven't heard anyone else play them, I don't have the sheet
music, etc. So all I thought was, well, I have to go get my
recording and hear it again. I have just listened to tracks one
through six of disk one, or the entire first
suite.
Previously, I loved the first movement to the first
suite, partially because it's *there*; you don't need to look up
which track it's on and skip ahead to track eighteen or so, you just
put in the first disk and play it.
Now, I love the prelude to
the first suite. I love that simple undulating pattern that's
repeated over and over again idfferently; it's just a beautiful
tone. But Yo-Yo plays it so FAST!!!! It's hard to hear the wonderful
music behind it, to me when it's played so quickly!
I loved
the Courante for that same suite; I loved how it felt like a
cheerful little dance, with some repeated patterns, but not too
sappy or too fast, either. Some people play Bach like machines, you
have this awful feeling of "I don't know what it is but it must be
Bach," because you just hear those cold mathematical patterns. This
feels much more fun than that.
I also loved the saraband to
Suite #1 because it has the slowness I crave; every single note is
savored for its tone, its presence, and its emotional resonance. It
could be the tiniest bit faster, but was still wonderful.
I
also enjoyed the Menuets; you could almost picture people from
Bach's day just dancing to it having fun! It had Bach-like patterns,
but it didn't sound like Bach, and every now and then he went
through some minor chard construction, and it's not that "minor
means sad" or anything, but it brought incredibly new angles to it:
he wasn't playing them like a machine, just skipping over them, but
he wasn't trying to such you into sappy emotion with them; they just
minor chords. I loved that movement!!!
But my favorite was
the Sixth movement, the Gigue. Everything that has been said about
the first movement, the third, and the fifth can be said to the
Sixth as well, only amplified. He played it much faster than almost
anything I've played, and louder; you could feel him just having
fun!! There was energy there, with those loud multiple stops played
forcefully; it was exhillarating!
I love the Gigue to the
first suite!!
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RebeccaCello
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(5/27/01 3:08:31
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Gavottes 1 and 2
from the sixth suite
Gorgeous, especially Gavotte 1 which I can't play (sob).
I also
love Bourree 1 and 2 from the third suite.
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Rich
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(5/27/01 3:38:56 pm)
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Re: A poll!!
Turning a new leaf!!
Oh come on Rebecca, If you can play the Brahms Sonata surely you
can play the Gavotte from the 6th Suite.
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zambocello
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Re: A poll!!
Turning a new leaf!!
Prelude: #4. The architecture never ceases to amaze me and I like
the dark, E flat sonorities.
Allemande: #1. So simple and
ingenious.
Courante: #2. With lots of separate bows and
little slurs and a fast tempo so it is a real bundle of
energy.
Sarabande: #5. A heartbreaker.
"Extra"
movement: #6. Energy and substance and, on a 4-stringer,
high-tension virtuosity to boot.
Gigue: #4. ....and a little
faster, please.
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MsCheryl
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(5/28/01 7:12:08 am)
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I feel like
dancing
Every time I hear (or try to play) the first movement of the sixth
suite. Maybe that's why I have so much trouble - I can't coordinate
my feet and hands to move at the same time! 
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Zaraak
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Re: A poll!!
Turning a new leaf!!
I can't believe everyone fell for this!
Maybe I'm just
cynical but it really sounds to me that BettyLou is having a good
laugh at the people falling for this question, but then I guess I am
as well. Maybe I'm wrong (it happens all the time!).
Btw, my
vote for the "Who is BettyLou, really?" raffle is RuthAnn, but
again, I'm probably wrong (might as well continue the theme!).
Greg Edited by: Zaraak
at: 5/28/01 9:28:44 am
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MsCheryl
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(5/28/01 2:02:33 pm)
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Fell for what?
Cynicism can infect everything!
A little goes a long way, and it has gone beyond that on this
board! There is a very fine line between the cynic and the sadist.
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Betsy
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(5/28/01 4:22:43 pm)
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Well said, Ms.
Cheryl!
I love a good, cynical comment at times. However, I have to admit
that the constant, dripping sarcasm so prevalent on this board
lately has been tiresome (to me, at least.)
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ruthann
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(5/29/01 11:16:53
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Well, I'm
offended...
I'm definately NOT Betty Lou. Not all people with double barrelled
names are the same. Nor do we use more than one capital
letter...
Quite frankly, I find her brand of humor mean
spirited, and you should all know how I feel about mean spirited
remarks, I've got up on my soap box way too many times here on that
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BettyLou
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(5/29/01 11:20:30
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You were
wrong!!
Dear suspicious, cynical Zarrak,
Now I am laughing at
you!
I asked this question in all earnestness--the Bach
Suites are new to me and I have loved working on them
immensely!
I am not RuthAnn, btw.
the truth is out
there!
BettyLou
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